God's Anger Isaiah 9:8-10:19

God seems pretty angry here. In trying to figure out why, it looks like there are a few humbling reasons:
1) The Israelites speak with pride and arrogance. They believe and act is if they are strong enough on their own, yet they are nothing without God. And, yet, they would not even be the chosen people if it wasn't for God. So it seems to make sense that God is bothered by this. For me this could look like this: "Wow, it is amazing the circumstances I have put myself into in order to get the experience to minister. It is amazing the difference I make in people's lives with all my brilliant questions and my keen understanding of the Bible. And you know, look at all the results I get from my hard work at fund raising ... it is surprising how much I can convince people to support us. Thank goodness God has me on His team." Obviously this is crazy ... it even scares me to write it. But there are times I probably act like those are alot closer to what I believe. What is the opposite: humility and teachability. I am nothing without God. I can do nothing without God. I have nothing without God. I am who God made me to be not who I made me to be. I only understand things because God allows it. It is by God's grace and power that anyone is ever influenced by me.
2) After all God's punishment, they still aren't repentant. That is the reaction of prideful and arrogant people. But am I any different? I try to sugar coat things rather then admit wrong. I try to change myself rather then admit that I can't change or even want to change. Or I take a beating and conclude "I survived that and now am stronger for it." Yet I never grew through it or was humbled, I just endured.

Conclusion. I have some Israelite tendencies, more than I care to admit. I can see that I am growing in humility and teachability, but I still have foundation remaining that tells me real men figure things out and do them on their own, real men are self made. I hope and pray that foundation continues to crumble and be rebuilt on a true sense of where I fall in the grand scheme of things.